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Word 2007: Custom dictionaries
In message , Jay Freedman
writes Hi Elizabeth, You can have multiple custom dictionaries for a single language, and you can switch them on and off individually (go to Office button Word Options Proofing Custom Dictionaries and check/uncheck them). So you could have both a science.dic and a philosophy.dic stored in the UProof folder, and turn on only one of them for a particular document. What you can't do -- except perhaps with a macro -- is automatically associate a particular dictionary or set of dictionaries with a particular document. As an aside, when you have more than one custom dictionary active at the same time, one of them is always designated as the "default" custom dictionary, the one into which new words will be added during spell-checking. That's the purpose of the Change Default button in the Custom Dictionaries dialog. It's worth double-checking which dictionary is the default, to save yourself the work of rearranging entries later. Thanks, Jay. I understand what to do now. I hadn't realised that I could uncheck my own custom dictionaries, nor what the Change Default button would do. I'm pretty much up to speed with Word 2007 in terms of ordinary use, except for one other thing I haven't been able to figure out. But I'll post that as a separate topic. Many thanks again. -- Elizabeth |
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